Fearing bad effects of dangerous chemicals on cosmetic users, the Drug Administration of Vietnam of the Ministry of Health banned more 5 derivatives from Paraben and Methylisothiazolinone in cosmetics products.

The foreign ministers of South Korea, Japan and China on Saturday hold their first meeting in three years, in a bid to warm frosty ties and restore a regular three-way summit of their leaders, stalled because of tensions over history and territory.

The coming Lunar New Year will be a damp squib for Ding Shen, the 34-year-old owner of Beautiful Scenery Fireworks, who like a lot of China's entrepreneurs is counting the cost of an economy growing at its slowest for nearly a quarter of century.

Farmers across the country these days have stepped up cultivation of flowers for Tet (Lunar New Year,) which is one month away, but they’re worried that sales may dampen on increased production and bountiful supplies.

HANOI – Summer here this year was an overnight sensation. It arrived early – in May, springtime. After months of dreary, mostly cool weather, the sun just showed up one day and made the sky blue, the light bright and air hot and damp.